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Need a healthy reason to do something good for the planet? How about going a day without meat? March 20 marks Meatout Day when many around the world will make a conscious effort not to add meat to their meals. In Bermuda, the Vegetarian Society of Be...

Coral Wells and her husband, Michael, had almost given up hope of having a baby when they found out she was pregnant. That same day, they also found out she had breast cancer. It was February 2007 and Mrs Wells had just turned 37. She found the lump...

A Government programme to send behaviourally challenged students overseas for treatment has seen its funding restored. Youth Minister Glenn Blakeney said the Psycho-Educational Programme would see its budget restored to $3.12 million for the coming f...

Only a fraction of the Government funds set aside to overhaul the ageing Lefroy House seniors facility has actually been spent, according to Health Minister Zane DeSilva. Mr DeSilva gave a breakdown of spending in response to criticism from members o...

A husband angry at the treatment his sick wife received at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital has formed a group for other dissatisfied patients and relatives. Allan DeSilva, 77, says more than 25 people have agreed to join his committee, which is cal...

Allan DeSilva claims his wife Silvia came out of King Edward VII Memorial Hospital at the end of last year with problems she hadn’t gone in with. Mrs DeSilva, 71, is diabetic and was admitted for pain management in August. According to her husband, s...

Four years ago, Raymond Evans began suffering from a “gagging feeling” which was so bad that he took himself to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s emergency room. “They said there was nothing wrong,” said the 62-year-old. “I left. I told myself it w...

John Pacheco's complaint dates back to September 2007, when he says he suffered kidney failure during a stay at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. The 53-year-old, who has had both legs and seven fingers amputated due to poor circulation caused by hi...

The 22 nine-year-olds in Laurel Burgess’ class at Saltus Grammar have some idea of how cancer can take a person’s life and leave others grieving. Ms Burgess said she’s been clear and candid with her students about the disease and particularly so thi...